Welcome to Collectors Place

Collectors Place is a new feature at our site and here you will get answers to some frequently asked memorabilia questions that is asked of the Society's Baseball Historian, Mr. Max Silberman. Our first featured article by Max tells our readers more about autographed baseballs.

Featured articles:

• A'S COLLECTORS FIND EBAY HELPFUL
• THE RAREST OF COLLECTOR OPPORTUNITIES
• THE CURRENT A'S ROSTER
• CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICITY
• DISPOSING OF A COLLECTION: HOW?
• PROVENANCE-IS IT REAL?
• BUYING ONLINE-PROS AND CONS
• AUTOGRAPHS BY MAIL
• "I HAVE AN AUTOGRAPHED BALL"
• ATHLETICS PUBLICATIONS
• WHAT ARE MY BASEBALL CARDS WORTH?

You can contact our research department by emailing Max at max120@comcast.net for a prompt and free answer to questions about the A's or memorabilia. This free service is not for the purpose of purchasing or selling of baseball memorabilia and we are not a baseball card store.

Max Silberman is a retired history teacher with the School District of Philadelphia. He became actively involved in the baseball memorabilia hobby as a collector/dealer in l977.

For many years Max wrote the memorabilia column for "Phillies Report" and was a hobby columnist for "Baseball Hobby News." In 1996, he became a charter member of the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society and has served as Vice-President for Research and Historian.